Posted on 08/27/2014 2:19:20 PM PDT by EveningStar
California is currently suffering through its worst drought in at least a century, with 82 percent of the state facing "extreme" or "exceptional" drought. The before-and-after photos below offer a visual look at just how staggering the change has been.
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I won’t start worrying until the Okies start moving back.
Water ran all the way to the Gulf of Mexico this year. First time since the 70’s.
I’m a native Californian and I’ve lived through droughts. I have never seen Lake Shasta so low. Ever.
Maybe they could use the “bullet” train to ship water from British Columbia??????
Images, what images?
IMAGES ? Since the 1970’s...
No significant new water storage has been built.
Moron California environmentalists want to have existing damns torn down
No plans to build more storage but they want a Bullet train
In the meantime the population has almost doubled since the 1970’s
The real IMAGE is one of stupidity
The real IMAGE is what you get when Democrats hold the purse strings and think they’re planning for the future
No water problem in Nevada. I hear you are building a tunnel that will draw water from to the bottom of Lake Mead.
Yup. Hired some ham-ass engineers from Gaza to help out. We’re gonna pipe the water to the snow making machines around Lake Tahoe. :>}
“I’m a native Californian and I’ve lived through droughts. I have never seen Lake Shasta so low. Ever.”
The drought will break soon; likely with above normal rains and flooding and mudslides. Maybe even starting this fall.
Statistically it would seem it should be very soon.
I hope so. My daughter lives in the Central Valley and it is dry, dry, dry.
They need a nice, strong El Nino.
So what? They’ve saved the snail darter!
“Isn’t this really a mostly government caused drought???”
Are you serious?
While the RATS (and the RINOS) should have been investing in more water storage facilities, Rainfall (and snowfall) has been about 10% of normal for a couple of years. What I take issue with is the “environmentalists” roadblocks to adding these facilities, and indeed even pressing to dismantle impoundment that we already have (it’s for the fish).
“Yeah but, we’re going to get a 50 bazillion dollar bullet train built here, Don’t know who will actually ride it, but wow! “
Right you are I-M! If our agriculture in the Central Valley fails (and unless next year we get some substantial precipitation it’s going to), there won’t be any illegal alien farmworkers to get government-subsidized rides throughout the Valley because the crops they pick won’t be there! But Jerry the Fairy can die happy that he had a “lifelong commitment” to ruling even though, like his idiot father, he never held a real job and didn’t know what he was doing, never!
I should have said “environmentalist caused”....
Try Crossbow on that sage brush.If it survives that,then God must want it there.
Do you mean the Gulf of California? Because the Gulf of Mexico receives water from the Mississippi/Missouri/Ohio/Tennessee riverine system, a VAST amount of fresh water every second.
Remember a few years ago all those greenies were rhapsodizing about “breaching dams” and “restoring wild rivers”? Funny you don’t hear a lot about that lately.
The results of liberal management.
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